Anja Clyke

Anja Clyke started quilt making in 2003 and fell in love with the craft. Anja is a founding member of the Maritime Modern Quilt Guild (2012). Anja enjoys exploring quilting in a contemporary manner using solid colours and geometric shapes. For Anja, quilting is a way to relax, work with her hands, and engage in the social aspects of quilting.

Anja’s personal and commissioned quilts are contained in the permanent collection of the Black Artists Network of Nova Scotia (BANNS), and her work has been featured in their exhibitions:

• 2022 to 2024 – The Secret Codes – National Tour - Black Artists Network of Nova Scotia
• 2019 - Paintings and Quilts - Chase Gallery, Public Archives of Nova Scotia (BANNS)
• 2018 – Celebration of Black Nova Scotian Judges – Halifax Central Library (BANNS)
• 2017 – New Notes in the Pattern: Contemporary African Nova Scotian Art - Chase Gallery, Public Archives of Nova Scotia (BANNS)
• 2014 - Inspire - Chase Gallery, Public Archives of Nova Scotia (BANNS)

Anja has had two solo Exhibitions at the Black Loyalist Heritage Centre, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, in 2017 and 2018. Anja has had quilts displayed in two concurrent quilt shows at Quilt Canada hosted by the Canadian Quilters Association in 2019 and 2023. In 2024, the Royal Ontario Museum purchased a quilt for their Quilts: Made in Canada exhibition. Anja was commissioned by Dalhousie Art Gallery, and in November 2024, a permanent quilt installation was unveiled in the atrium of Dalhousie’s Schulich School of Law as part of the university’s African Nova Scotian Strategy.